Event: Baptized November 25, 1787 Trinity Lutheran Church, Reading. Event Sponsors: Peter Froelich and Maria Magdalena.
DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR PENSION OFFICE, 1812 DIVISION April 13, 1872 respectfully returned to Mr. B. Frank Boyer, Reading, Berks
County, with the information that the name of Mary Christ is not found in the rolls of this office under the Act of February 14, 1871.
BRIEF OF CLAIM FOR A WIDOW'S PENSION in the case of Mary Christ, widow of Thomas Christ, who served in Captain Moore's Company, Pennsylvania Militia. Residence, Reading, Pennsylvania. Soldier enlisted September 1, 1814. Discharged December 4, 1814.
[Claim] Rejected by reason of marriage subsequent to February 17, 1815, it appearing in the declaration and also from the church record that "claimant was married April 30, 1815". Admitted. Rejected June 21, 1872 to a pension of eight dollars per month, from February 17, 1871.
ACT OF FEBRUARY 14, 1871:
WAR OF 1812, Mary Christ, Reading, Berks
County, Pennsylvania, widow of Thomas Christ, died at Reading on August 14, 1856.
MARRIAGE REGISTER, April 30, 1815, Thomas Christ and Maria Rees, both of Reading, State of Pennsylvania, County of Berks.
On this eighteenth day of April AD 1872 before me an alderman of the city of Reading in and for said county, personally appeared Rev Jacob Frey whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit and who on being duly sworn according to Law, says that he is the officiating clergyman of the Trinity Lutheran Church of Reading, Pa and as such, has possession of the Records of said church, that the above is a true and correct copy of said record of the marriage celebrated by the Rev Henry A Muhlenberg between Thomas Christ and Mary Rees. That the same is entered upon said record in the proper hand writing of the said Henry A Muhlenberg who was at the time the officiating clergyman in said congregation and that he has no interest in this claim.
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